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You have significantly less control over your hand

I'm not really sure how. Poker (at least with more than one opponent) is partly a game of folding until you get decent cards to work with. If that's not control, what is?

there is more random chance involved

I'm not sure how that's the case.

and less actual poker.

Strongly disagree! The essence of poker is allowing a player to infer another player's hand. Hold'em probably provides more opportunities for this than any other poker game. In Super/System, Doyle Brunson describes a hand where he called at the river with jack high -- and won. Why? 'Cause he knew the bettor had an even worse hand. Now THAT is poker!